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Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention
(www.theguardian.com)
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Really pulling out the "greatest hits" with this piece here. He's got nothing else.
‘Member when Trump said he’d take guns without due process? Like he literally said that.
https://youtu.be/yxgybgEKHHI?si=5WjokT9mD_4VQ46T
That’s a GOP golden oldie. I’ve heard that same bs line since the early 90s at least.
And it's a great line for the gun lobby. In a lot of ways, the NRA and gun manufacturers would prefer a Biden victory because gun sales spike when Democratic presidents get elected, as gun-nuts are certain every time it happens that this is the time, for real, that they're "coming for our guns." In other words, people panic buy rifles because they think a federal ban is coming. But the reality is that Dems will never push through sweeping anti-gun legislation because there are so many pro-2FA democrats out there that doing so would be ludicrously difficult and monumentally unpopular.
"regime"
He really used that word? Wow...
I said the same thing. Heavy eye roll.
This is partly just blowback from everyone agreeing to use different vocabulary for governments we like vs governments we don't. We never should have tolerated the blatant propaganda of the US having an "administration" while our adversaries have "regimes".
There are lots of other examples of journalists using loaded vocabulary this way. Most of them escape me at the moment but I can think of a few, like "freedom fighters" vs "insurgents" or "terrorists", and "police action" or "peacekeeping force" vs "occupation" or "invasion".